Hear me out: Playdate for interactive fiction.
Turns out it's possible to fit @inkle.co's ink engine on the 50€ Xteink X4 e-reader of internet fame.
Who's in?
On art and video games: Here's a Youtube essay about how the Metal Gear Solid 3 evokes cinema history when played with a monochrome filter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzBhf6zElYU [1/2]
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BnF exhibition Cartes Imaginaires in Paris is really something - if you like sea monsters on old maps, and literary maps, don’t miss.
Okay, so this is massive and we're terrified.
Partnering with @play.breakthrought1d.org in the fight against diabetes, the ENTIRE inkle catalogue is on Humble Bundle right now for $20 -- including TR-49, all four novels, both Overboard! games, 80 Days, all four parts of Sorcery! ... everything.
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Salamander County Public Television is a collection of odd minigames, strung together with a silly plot about producing content for the local TV station.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521810/Salamander_County_Public_Television/ [1/2]
Soup Rooms is a free collection of virtual art rooms made by various indie developers with different ideas, messages and aesthetics.
https://kiteline.itch.io/soup-rooms [1/3]
Remember when inkle made a musical platformer that’s also a fairytale and a deduction game?
After a 10 minute introduction, you spend the next 10-ish hours eating fish, humans, sharks and whales, growing in mass, spontaneously evolving electricity powers and being a public menace, just as Spielberg intended.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/629820/Maneater/ [2/5]
Experience the ultimate power fantasy as the apex predator of the seas - a giant Shark! Terrorize the coastal waterways. Tear swimmers and divers limb from limb, give the humans a reason to fear you!
Sometimes you just have to run.
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A Highland Song - and its soundtrack - on a massive discount, right now.
store.steampowered.com
Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.
That sounds like the incipit of a cool game.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
After being notified by mischievous high school students, archaeologists uncovered a large and luxurious second-century Roman house near the Colosseum.
